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  • FELINE PHILOSOPHY
    FELINE PHILOSOPHY
    JOHN GRAY
    'Why can't a human be more like a cat? That is the question threaded through this vivid patchwork of philosophy, fiction, history and memoir ... a wonderful mixture of flippancy and profundity, astringency and tenderness, wit and lament' Jane O'Grady, Daily Telegraph'When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?' Montaigne There ...
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    13,75 €

  • BLOOD OF SPAIN
    BLOOD OF SPAIN
    RONALD FRASER
    We discover what civil war, revolution and counter-revolution actually felt like from inside both camps. The contours of the war take shape through the words of the eyewitnesses. The atmosphere of events is vividly recaptured. And though the lived experience of the participants is revealed the uniquely tragic essence of all civil war. 'Fascinating and brilliantly unorthodox. ' ...
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    22,50 €

  • MY WEEK WITH HIM
    MY WEEK WITH HIM
    JOYA GOFFNEY
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    11,25 €

  • THE PIGEON NEEDS A BATH!
    THE PIGEON NEEDS A BATH!
    MO WILLEMS
    Smell? What smell? I don't smell. YOU smell. The Pigeon needs a bath Except, well, the Pigeon's really not so sure about that. Besides, he took a bath last month Maybe. It looks like it's going to take some serious convincing to get the Pigeon to take the plunge ...
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    9,99 €

  • THE PILGRIMAGE
    THE PILGRIMAGE
    PAULO COELHO
    On a legendary road across Spain, travelled by pilgrims of San Tiago, we find Paulo Coelho on a contemporary quest for ancient wisdom. This journey becomes a truly initiatory experience, and Paulo Coelho is transformed forever as he learns to understand the nature of truth through the simplicity of life. 'The Pilgrimage' has a very important place in the work of Paulo Coelho, n...
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    12,50 €

  • ONE ALADDIN TWO LAMPS
    ONE ALADDIN TWO LAMPS
    JEANETTE WINTERSON
    An invitation to change our lives and imagine the world anew through reading stories, in the new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit I can change the story because I am the story. With her execution looming, a woman is fighting for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps ...
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  • ARTHUR AND TEDDY ARE COMING OUT
    ARTHUR AND TEDDY ARE COMING OUT
    RYAN LOVE
    The feel-good read of 2024. Perfect for fans of Mike Gayle, Beth O'Leary and Alice Oseman's Heartstopper. Selected as one of the Independent's 19 debut authors set to make their mark in 2023 'Gentle, honest and beautifully authentic' Julietta Henderson 'Touching and sincere' The Sunday Times 'Feel-good, heartwarming fiction' Holly Miller 'I'm totally #TeamArthurandTeddy' H...
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    12,50 €

  • THE HACIENDA
    THE HACIENDA
    ISABEL CAÑAS
    Hacienda San Isidro was meant to be Beatriz's haven, her salvation from an oppressive life with her uncle and his vicious wife. When Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposed, Beatriz dreamed only of the security his estate in the countryside would provide, ignoring the rumors surrounding his first wife's demise and his sinister allegiances. She will have her own home again, no matter the...
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    12,50 €

  • ROUSSEAU: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION
    ROUSSEAU: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION
    ROBERT WOKLER
    One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also its most formidable critic, condemning the political, economic, theological, and sexual trappings of civilization along lines that would excite the enthusiasm of romantic individualists and radical revolutionaries alike. In this st...
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    11,25 €

  • A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
    A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
    JAMES WEST DAVIDSON
    A character-filled history that brings the American saga to life "This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn."--Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers "Davidson has written a work that should lead readers to reflect anew on America's past and present. . . . We can all use not jus...
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    13,75 €

  • EXEMPLARY TALES OF LOVE AND TALES OF DISILLUSION
    EXEMPLARY TALES OF LOVE AND TALES OF DISILLUSION
    MARÍA DE ZAYAS Y SOTOMAYOR
    At the height of María de Zayas's popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. But by the end of the nineteenth century, Zayas had been excluded from the Spanish literary canon because of her gender and the sociopolitical changes that swept Spain and Europe. Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales ...
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    35,00 €

  • A CURSE SO DARK AND LONELY
    A CURSE SO DARK AND LONELY
    BRIGID KEMMERER
    Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall, was cursed to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year; he could only be saved if a girl fell for him. But at the end of each autumn he turned into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction... and destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope. Washington, D.C. native Harper Lacy's father is long gone, her mother is dying, and ...
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    11,25 €

  • THE TENTH MAN
    THE TENTH MAN
    GRAHAM GREENE
    In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel, it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonizing and crucial failure of nerve. Hysterical with a sense of injustice, he offers to barter everything he owns for someone to take his place. ...
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    11,25 €

  • GRACELING
    GRACELING
    KRISTIN CASHORE
    Discover the Graceling Realm in this unforgettable, award-winning novel from bestselling author Kristin Cashore. A New York Times bestseller ALA Best Book for Young Adults Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature Winner Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal,Booklist, and BCCB Best Book of the Year "Rageful, exhilarating, wistful in turns" (The New York Times Bo...
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    12,50 €

  • OPEN, HEAVEN
    OPEN, HEAVEN
    SEÁN HEWITT
    TWO BOYS MEET. EVERYTHING CHANGES. * A Guardian, Irish Times and BBC Book for 2025 * 'Hewitt writes with such tenderness and grace' ANNE ENRIGHT 'I loved it... Beautiful' FERDIA LENNON On the cusp of adulthood, James dreams of another life far away from his small village. As he contends with the expectations of his family, his burgeoning desire - an ache for autonomy, tende...
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    21,25 €

  • THE SUNFLOWER BOYS
    THE SUNFLOWER BOYS
    SAM WACHMAN
    "That rarest phenomenon: a war novel that feels at once timeless and precisely of the moment..." --Washington Post A poignant coming-of-age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Dark, about a young boy wrestling with his sexuality as war breaks out in modern Ukraine. In many ways, twelve-year-old Artem's life in Chernihiv, Uk...
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    25,00 €

  • BROOKLYN
    BROOKLYN
    COLM TÓIBÍN
    Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. The book that inspired the major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis ...
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    12,50 €

  • 2666
    2666
    ROBERTO BOLAÑO
    Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border- an urban sprawl that draws lost souls to it like a vortex. Convicts and academics find themselves here, as does an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, 'missing' author. But, there is a darker side to the town. Girls and women are disappearing at an alarming rate. As a sense of conspiracy gro...
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    18,75 €

  • A GATHERING OF SHADOWS
    A GATHERING OF SHADOWS
    V. E. SCHWAB
    The second novel in the acclaimed Shades of Magic series from V.E. Schwab Four months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his pathcrossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Rhy was wounded and the Dane twins fell, and the stone wascast with Holland's dying body through the rift, and into Black London. In many ways, things have alm...
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    12,50 €

  • BANNED BOOKS
    BANNED BOOKS
    Immerse yourself in the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published! Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is deemed "acceptable" in published works have shifted over the centuries, and from culture to culture. Banned Books explores why some of the world's most important literary classi...
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    16,25 €

  • HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS
    HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS
    VACLAV SMIL
    We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-ne...
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    13,75 €

  • MOCTEZUMA'S CHILDREN
    MOCTEZUMA'S CHILDREN
    DONALD E. CHIPMAN
    Though the Aztec Empire fell to Spain in 1521, three principal heirs of the last emperor, Moctezuma II, survived the conquest and were later acknowledged by the Spanish victors as reyes naturales (natural kings or monarchs) who possessed certain inalienable rights as Indian royalty. For their part, the descendants of Moctezuma II used Spanish law and customs to maintain and enh...
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    26,50 €

  • RARE SINGLES
    RARE SINGLES
    BENJAMIN MYERS
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    23,75 €

  • EMPIRE OF STORMS
    EMPIRE OF STORMS
    SARAH J. MAAS
    'One of the best fantasy book series of the past decade' TIME Only the greatest sacrifice can turn the tide of war. War is brewing in the fifth book of the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius as war looms on the horizon. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gai...
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  • THE HOUSEMAID IS WATCHING
    THE HOUSEMAID IS WATCHING
    FREIDA MCFADDEN
    A twisting, pulse-pounding thriller from Freida McFadden, the New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker "You must be our new neighbors!" Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and smile back- but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We ...
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  • DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA, VOL. 3
    DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA, VOL. 3
    KOYOHARU GOTOUGE
    Tanjiro sets out on the path of the Demon Slayer to save his sister and avenge his family!In Taisho-era Japan, kindhearted Tanjiro Kamado makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous j...
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    11,25 €

  • DEAR IJEAWELE
    DEAR IJEAWELE
    CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
    From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response. Here are fifteen inv...
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  • DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA, VOL. 4
    DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA, VOL. 4
    KOYOHARU GOTOUGE
    Tanjiro sets out on the path of the Demon Slayer to save his sister and avenge his family!In Taisho-era Japan, kindhearted Tanjiro Kamado makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous j...
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    11,25 €

  • DID ANYTHING GOOD COME OUT OF...THE VIETNAM WAR?
    DID ANYTHING GOOD COME OUT OF...THE VIETNAM WAR?
    PHILIP STEELE
    HISTORY & THE PAST: GENERAL INTEREST (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). This book considers the Vietnam (or Second Indochina) War, 1955-1975, which may have killed as many as 3 million troops and civilians. It divided America, it aroused huge opposition around the world and it divided generations. Why was it fought and what were the outcomes? Did it have any unexpected consequences? Did a...
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    10,90 €

  • TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
    TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
    HARPER LEE
    'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Lee explores the issues of race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s with co...
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    12,50 €